ENGL 1001 Course Description: 

Introduction to Rhetoric and Composition at Fairfield University introduces students to the academic discipline of rhetoric and composition. Students read nonfiction texts, including rhetoric and composition and cross-disciplinary scholarship, in order to analyze their conventions and craft texts in various genres and modalities for a range of audiences. Students develop effective writing processes, sound research strategies, strong academic arguments, rhetorical awareness, and sensitivity to disciplinarity. The course prepares students to transfer this knowledge to their composing across the curriculum and across contexts.

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Fall 2020 Course Theme, "Reading & Writing Rhetorical Spaces": 

Over the course of the semester, we’ll explore rhetoric and composition through the lens of how we function within specific spaces and how we approach our use of objects within those spaces. Spaces, places, and the objects that inhabit our lives influence how we do things, including how we approach rhetorical tasks such as speaking and writing. Furthermore, spaces, places, and objects do their own work on us in that their makers and creators made decisions that now influence how we inhabit spaces and places and how we use objects. In this way we can say that they are “rhetorical." After some time learning about rhetoric itself – we’ll read these multiple “materialities” (material experiences) through what you’re learning about rhetoric.